Re: [ALSC-Forum] Draft report - statistics and "fraud"

[Karl Auerbach]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Adam PEAKE wrote:

> As your draft explains, "9,721 pin letters were returned (as of August
> 19, 2001), 92.2% of which had been sent to countries in the Asia region
> ... raises questions about the efficacy of postal mail" These 9,721 are
> included in the 33,043 registrations you suggest may be fraudulent.
> Since when was "return to sender" and indication of fraud?

One of the very sad things about the last election was that these kinds of
irregularities were never brought to the attention of the candidates or
electors in a timely manner.

Instead they were handled in the ICANN way - in secret and using ad hoc
criteria - and there was no public notice that such irregularities had
even occurred until several months later.

In any reasonable election situation, such irregularities would have been
raised in a timely manner - not six months after the fact - so that the
candidates and electors could send observers to ascertain that reasonable
criteria had been created and applied fairly.

	--karl--